Everyone has different ways of trying to build good habits and break bad ones. I’m going to share my most recent experience.

A friend of mine over on Google+ recently introduced me to this website called HabitRPG. It’s premise is to gamify your life by offering XP (xpees, or experience points, for you non-gamers) for doing tasks, building habits, accomplishing things. It’s designed to let each individual person set it up how it works for them, and it also allows that person to adjust things on the fly.

This was going to be just a plain, old post sharing yet another piece of flash fiction, but social media’s kind of on my mind since my husband has recently taken an interest in Klout and was astonished to realize that mine was sitting at a steady 41 (his is now...

About a month ago, my husband complimented me on a short piece of writing I did, comparing my style with one of our favorite authors, Jennifer Rardin. Of course, as any compliment would do, I was grinning because it was sweet and it’s really cool to be compared...

First off, if you don’t watch Castle, shame on you! But I’m not here to discuss the virtues of this show or how ruggedly handsome Nathan Fillion is. I want to talk about what an absolutely wonderful I think ABC has done marketing this show. Three years ago, someone in...